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There are currently 200 daily Covid deaths in England on average as the fourth wave peaks, compared to 400 from flu in a bad year. But Dr Kit Yates said that was still too many.

Ive been speaking about that with kit yates, a mathematical biologist and a member of the independent sage group of scientists. we saw case numbers flatten off a little bit at the weekend. we usually see peaks in reported cases on fridays and then it follows of the weekend, and then that slowly wraps up to a peak on friday, so this is what we are sort of seeing today. it has gone up to about 100,000. in fact, today. it has gone up to about 100,000. infact, we today. it has gone up to about 100,0...

Correspondent ben wright. we correspondent ben wright. are still within a rising v infections. we are still within a rising wave of infections. searching across the country. this is what ministers and officials had expected. but we have seen is a fracturing of these figures across the uk. governments in wales, scotland and northern ireland and tighter curbs for peoples activities after christmas day. where as we wait to see if that is the path that the westminster government is going to go down ...

BRITS have been warned they are very likely to be exposed to Omicron in the coming weeks, as experts say two jabs is not enough protection.The variant

Expert ‘surprised’ UK not doing more to slow Omicron and warns the ‘UK could see 900,000 cases a day with over 10,000 in hospital’ ..

The Omicron variant has refocused attention on vaccination rates as data shows disparities in uptake across age, region and ethnicity

Newly-published minutes from JCVI meetings show that the UK advisory group first looked at whether letting 12 to 15-year-olds catch Covid naturally was better than vaccinating them in spring.

The Department of Healths daily update showed there were 40,077 positive tests across the UK in the last 24 hours, up by 9.3 per cent on the previous week.

The Immensa Health Clinic in Woverhampton reported that just 0.2 per cent of Covid tests from people in Sheffield were positive, compared to an expected five to eight per cent.